How to set push subject as the title for push notification?

Question

Is there any possibilities of setting push subject as the title in push notification? I'm getting app name as the subject and description is same as given in the push. I want to change the title of the push.
Is this possible in iOS? I hope it is possible in android.

Answer 1

I just tested this on an iPhone 6s running iOS 9.1, and here's what I found: If the title field is provided as part of the alert dictionary, the notification on the lock screen will still show the bundle name. However, when viewing the same notification in Notification Center (accessed by swiping down from the top edge), the title is used in place of the app/bundle name.

When no title field is provided as part of the alert dictionary, the bundle name is displayed in both the lock screen and the Notification Center.

Answer 2

As of 2015, Apple has started using a title attribute but only seems to use when displaying a notification on the Apple Watch.

The title string used in the short look provides a brief indication of the intent of the notification. For local notifications, you specify this string using the alertTitle property of the UILocalNotification object. For remote notifications, add the title key to the alert dictionary inside the payload

This might indicate that it will be used also on the iPhone later on.

Source: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/General/Conceptual/WatchKitProgrammingGuide/BasicSupport.html

Here's an example JSON payload: https://gist.github.com/edwardmp/2295364f068b24084e67561c8e5c2944

Edit: As of iOS 9 this started working on iPhone and iPad as well :) I do note that this appears to only be displayed in the notification center and not on the lock screen.